Marsha Blackburn: Tea Party was bottom-up; these protests are top-down.

[Binders Keepers]

No mention of the Koch brothers.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Projection.

[irisblue]

2. she is scared.

[elleng]

4. With reason, I hope.

[elleng]

3. Lie Lie Lie

[dalton99a]

5. What a dumb lie.

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[Beartracks]

6. Teabaggers dangled on strings from above.

Just like puppets...

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[TreasonousBastard]

7. Come on-- show me one teabagger who could come up with any of that on his own.

[JoeOtterbein]

8. I prefer being top-down

[Warpy]

9. Projection: she knews damned full well she's lying about the TP

because it was Koch funded and instigated in a large part by Glenn Beck. Remember him, Marsha?

So she thinks we are organized the same way.

This is their Achiles Heel, they honestly have no idea what's going on out there and will drive themelves even crazier than they already are looking for nonexistent sugar daddies and behind the scenes manipulators. They'll have to be behind the scenes since the far right bought up the media to deny the left access.

Maybe we can play them the way the tribes played Cortez, El Dorado, yeah, heard it was up north someplace. Never cared much for the yellow metal, myself, but they seem crazy for it.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. Glenn Beck and Dick Armey

[MurrayDelph]

16. Wasn't Jim deMint

part of that also.

[GoCubsGo]

35. I recall that Santelli clown from CNBC having a hand in its inception, as well.

Not exactly "grassroots" there...

[dem4decades]

10. Stupid Cooper just accepted lie after lie. Is there

Any one with a brain out there?

[Maru Kitteh]

26. He did interject "That's what they said about the TP too" and

"There's no basis for those numbers is there?" when she said that 2/3 at her town hall were not from her district. He also got her to admit after stalling & danying that the anger out there from people is real.

He pressed her at what point on her claim that it was all from a "national organization" which of course she couldn't answer.

I wanted him to push more but then again, I always want all of them to push more.


Unfortunately, Joy Reid cannot work 24hrs a day on both CNN and MSNBC. That would be my ideal. She may object.

[spanone]

11. piss off marsha

[volstork]

23. Thank you.

She is an ignorant POS.

[riversedge]

12. Or Murdock???

[Salviati]

13. Projection isn't just a job in a movie theater...

[redstateblues]

14. I was there and I was amazed at the turnout

It was in the most distant part of the county from the population centers. I was in the outdoor group. There were about 5 deplorables one of whom screamed Benghazi! occasionally. I'm very encouraged that there were so many people willing to come out in the reddest part of the reddest county in the state.

[dalton99a]

18. +1

[oasis]

17. Blackburn is a major subscriber, and contributor to "fake news".

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She claims only a third of the overflow crowd at yesterday's town hall was from her district. She claimed that some of her constituents called and complained about not being admitted into the building because it was already full.

Right, masses of people who don't live in the district managed to get there before her "fans". and

[crazylikafox]

19. Can't be top down. Dems don't even have a top right now.

[putitinD]

22. everything in life starts from the bottom up. Only in their demented supply side minds does it

work the other way!

[Rex]

20. Good. Keep that fucking imbecilic thought in your head.

It will make the downfall that much better and harder to whitewash. 100s will become 1000s and you can still pretend, love it!

[yeoman6987]

27. Tea party won over 60 seats the election following in 2010

Just wait til Indivisable does 100+ seats all over the country.

[Rex]

29. I guess these folks believe they can never be thrown out of office.

Her easy wins have her under the illusion she cannot be touched.

[yeoman6987]

31. I like it. Let them underestimate this

It will make the win in 2018 that much better. We may win both senate and house the way things are going. Just two weeks ago, it looked like repugs could get 60+ in the senate and won 10 seats in the house. Well that's over and repugs did it to themselves. It's so beautiful!

[LeftInTX]

39. Rich Lowry op-ed

wrote ignoring protests puts them in peril.

[putitinD]

21. Just like all Republicans, they LIE their asses off, and their supporters are too dumb to know

they are lying, and Democrats never believed a word they said in the first place. So they might as well Lie.

[Freethinker65]

24. Marsha Marsha Marsha. You are so wrong

[Crunchy Frog]

25. Accuse your opponent of doing what you did,

while denying that you ever did it.

I don't doubt that this strategy and talking point were cooked up in a Koch brothers subsidised think tank, in the hope that the stupider wingnuts will actually buy it.

Any politician that repeats this talking point is knowingly lying. I understand that the God they claim to believe in doesn't approve of that sort of thing.

[JDC]

28. She had never heard of Dick Armey I guess.

[moondust]

30. Ass backwards as always.

Wasn't the Tea Party a project started and funded by Dick Armey's group and some other wealthy GOP bigots to exploit racism for political gain after Obama was elected?

Here ya go, Marsha: The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party

[gratuitous]

32. Did Marsha forget, or is she hoping we forgot?

Notice anything about this "bottom-up" bus from a Tea Bagger rally?



The one with the yuge "Americans for Prosperity" logo over the rear wheels?

[UTUSN]

33. Whoever "Marsha Blackburn" is, I don't know & don't care what she says.

[CurtEastPoint]

36. Former 'image consultant', now a Republican toady.

[muntrv]

34. Yeah, the current protests are sponsored by which corporation?

[skylucy]

37. Geez she is so stupid.

[Cha]

38. Bullshit, fool

[aquamarina]

40. Jeebus Christ these people live in Opposite Land.

[EffieBlack]

41. And Marsha Blackburn is an idiot.

[Wounded Bear]

42. The more that Repubs complain, the more convinced I am that the TP was astroturf...

they are doing the same old song and dance, accusing us of things they did in '09.

The TP got tons of free pub on Fox News, and tons of money from the Koch Bros. IIRC, there actually were busses at many TP rallies. Haven't been many at these town halls according to my favorite "fake news" sources.